From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kay Sievers Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 15:44:52 +0000 Subject: Re: %e switch doesn't work for udev Message-Id: <1104853493.9042.21.camel@localhost.localdomain> List-Id: References: <28890729.1104822507859.JavaMail.www@wwinf0603> In-Reply-To: <28890729.1104822507859.JavaMail.www@wwinf0603> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 08:08 +0100, Philippe ROUQUIER wrote: > Hi, > (I've not suscribed to the list so if you've got an answer please reply > directly to me). > I've read in the udev FAQ that this is the right place for talking and > asking about udev problems, if not please tell me the right place to > send my question. You are at the right place. > here is the thing, in my /etc/udev/rules.d, I've set up something like > BUS="ide", KERNEL="hd[b-z]", SYSFS{removable}="1", NAME="%k", > SYMLINK="cdroms/cdrom%e" as it is advised in some docs. Now the problem > is it doesn't work: for example hdb (a cdrom) creates > a /dev/cdroms/cdrom symlink pointing to hdb and hdc (another cdrom > reader) also creates the same symlink later which is pointing to hdc > this time. The only way I've found to distinguish between the two cdroms > is with the %b switch but I really want to use the %e. I use udev > version 0.50 and I've got the newest hotplug package. > any idea what is going wrong? What does: udevinfo -q all -p /block/hdb udevinfo -q all -p /block/hdc print? Kay ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel